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Originally Posted by 142 Guy
That is interesting. I have never set eyes on that style; but, the parts manual does show them. I have the style of catch shown by part #13. The parts number for my catch has a notation
USA, CAN
142 - CH - 283499
144 - confusing range of numbers
145 - CH - 125681
The #14 style catch has the parts manual notation
57) USA, CAN
142 - CH 283500 -
144 - CH 295522 -
145 - CH 125682 -
My 1971 142 is 245596 so the 283500 is probably the start of the 1972 model year since they were doing about 70,000 142s per year. If Almex's car is a 1972 then they could be original.
So, your belts may be NOS; but actually late NOS for the 140 and if you parse the notation in the parts manual it implies that they are for USA Canada cars only.
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A mate was given them when he worked as a safety engineer for Saab in Sweden. Apparently they had them from way back and he use to drive his Amazon to work so they thought he would make use of them.